Ropar, December 4
A junior engineer of the Mining Department was allegedly thrashed and held hostage by the mining mafia after he tried to take action against them at nearby Mandwara village here yesterday.
The victim, Gagandeep Singh Sangha, managed to escape and informed his superiors, who took him to the local Civil Hospital. Sangha said around 2.30 pm, he noticed a man digging up the land using a poclain machine in the fields and informed the police. Before the police could arrive, accomplices of the machine operator from the area allegedly caught hold of the JE and thrashed him. SHO Navdeep Singh said an investigation was underway. — TNS
JE 'thrashed, held captive'
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